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[wotanon]

Who: Anyone!
Where: Anywhere
When: Day 449

Today's a day! What are you up to?

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[crossmyheartandhope]

...she was doing the best she could.

[protectshisown]

Was she though?

Because I know 'parent who treated you poorly, but was genuinely doing their best' and she isn't really giving that vibe. Not even a babysitter?

[crossmyheartandhope]

She wasn't doing so hot.

[protectshisown]

You were missing a leg.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean, yeah. But still.

[protectshisown]

Hurricane, I know exactly how difficult that is.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Just cause it was hard on me doesn't mean stuff wasn't hard on her.

[protectshisown]

And what was so hard on her to ignore her child recovering from a serious maiming?

[crossmyheartandhope]

...I ain't remembered that part, yet.

But she changed.

[protectshisown]

For the better...?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Not... really.

[protectshisown]

So how did she change?

[crossmyheartandhope]

She wasn't like that so much, when I was real little.

[protectshisown]

You were real little in that memory.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Naw, like - real little.

[protectshisown]

How little?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Like... five? Six? Something like that.

Then... I dunno. Something happened.

[protectshisown]

And how did she take care of you then?

[crossmyheartandhope]

When I was real little?

I guess, just... she was less like that. Y'know?

[protectshisown]

No.

Because far as I can see, she wasn't even around to be a less.

[crossmyheartandhope]

She was doing her best.

It ain't her fault stuff fell apart.

[protectshisown]

The trick of doing your best is actually trying to do something.

Her young song lost his leg and she couldn't even make sure the kitchen had food.

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Winces a little,]

She was having a rough time.

[protectshisown]

You were having a rough time

[crossmyheartandhope]

That don't mean she wasn't, too.